Roberts v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
398 F.2d 954 · 1968
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corp. (1970), Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. v. Brookhaven Manor Water Co. (1976)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. v. Pruitt · Glazer v. Glazer · Revlon, Inc. v. Buchanan · Emmett E. Wells v. The Warren Company, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the wrongful conduct is intentional or if it results from such gross disregard for the rights of the complaining party as to amount to willfulness on the part of the wrongdoer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.